Sentence examples for the gets from inspiring English sources
verb
To obtain; to acquire.
- I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
Being prey to some optical tricks—such as the hollow-mask illusion, or not noticing when a little word like "the" gets repeated, as it was three times in the previous paragraph is a price worth paying for a brain whose controlling expectations make reliable sense of the world.
And a less obvious application is in an easy-to-clean filter: stretch this filter and its pores grow, allowing stuff stuck in them to be flushed through when the filter is washed.That line of thinking leads to the idea of smart filters, which maintain a constant pore size by stretching as the gets clogged up, and also to bandages that dispense drugs in response to swelling.
As the gets smaller, the dip gets deeper and starts earlier.
Some of the gets Djokovic made - balls were coming back from ridiculous positions.
"It was all about the gets and the Twitter followers and catching gaffes and fact-checking mistakes.
You need to know when a "the" gets dropped, when a prop enters a line too late, when the spot is 6 inches (15.2 cm) to the right, etc. Knowing it so well you can see it when you close your eyes sounds stressful, but it makes everything so much easier.
News is rarely got from the get.
Get out while the getting is profitable.
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